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Quetiapine 100mg

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megan1514 · 16/06/2018 20:47

I am new to this drug i have only had it for one week and i was wondering if anyone on here who has been on it along time have any side affects? For me i feel they haven't got a lot of time to settle into my system and i was wondering when i would start to notice a difference. The sleep tablets i have been given are called zopiclone 7.5 mg. I have had theses before in the passed and i hate taking them as the really bad metal taste they leave in your mouth and it lasts until the next. the problem with the sleeping table is i dont feel them working for me i have told my Dr about this but he says i should stick with it. I did what he told me and every week i kept reordering them and was given them over and over again. Yet the new doctor im under now eat the face of me when he found out i was still getting them when i wasn't suppose to because i was only meant to get them for one week and one week only. I guess my old Dr didnt really care that i was still getting every week. I only done what he asked me to do he never told me to stop them after the week so i thought he still wanted me to take them. I ended up stopping them because they never helped me get over to sleep or stay asleep when i actly got over. I am also on diazepam 2mg i am to take three tablets three times a day for a week. My sertraline 150mg was just increased as well for my depression. So my question is does all these medications help with psychosis and severe depression? It would be helpful if anyone knows anything about this or has been thourgh the same thing i am going through. I really hope i get answers to this to easy my mind if i'm getting better or worse. Thanks

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Miladamermalada · 16/06/2018 22:52

What are you on Quetiapine for? It can be given to help with sleep, for drug resistant depression. It has mood stabilising qualities as well as being an antipsychotic. They are quite sedating but 100mg is a quite low dose so you could increase that if your Doctor says so, as with a lot of drugs, different doses for different things. I'd stick with it for now though.

fantasmasgoria1 · 17/06/2018 01:23

I take 300mg. It can make you nauseous at times and quite lethargic. I struggle to get up before 9am. But if I don’t take it my mental health would decline.

SmellMyBeads · 17/06/2018 01:31

I take 12.5mg in the morning and 25mg at night. It's for anxiety and my sleep. I've been able to quit the Xanax I was on long term. Apparently the low dose is more effective for anxiety and it was anxiety that was giving me insomnia.

Hope it works out for you.

mawbroon · 17/06/2018 01:43

I've been on it since 2013, it works really well for me.

The side effects were hard at first. It made me sleep 20 hours a day and the sugar cravings were something else. I'm on 50mg a day now and don't notice any side effects any more.

dirtyprettything · 19/06/2018 13:14

I take 150mg per day, it helps enormously (I am bipolar).
The drowsiness passed. It did make me fat though Sad

SmellMyBeads · 20/06/2018 13:34

I was worried about weight gain. But haven't so far * touches wood. My appetite definitely increased though. I'm choosing to ignore it. 😀

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